Highlights from Obama’s first term

Obama and Vice President Joe Biden host a beer summit. After he said police “acted stupidly” by arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates when he tried to enter his home in Cambridge, Mass., the president hosted Gates and the officer who arrested him at the White House. Over beers (nonalcoholic for the vice president) on the Rose Garden patio on July 30, 2009, Obama said he has “always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart.”